Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[Kondor]

Welcome.

Two days ago Yoshida-Sama Says about restriction to enter a Bloodstorm - We have to complete a Main Scenario form A realm reborn and Heavensward. I Really love this game but also i'm a leader of Free Company and i see how many people bounce from this game because first 50 lvl are birring and arenas form A realm Reborn are empty. Now i have to tell my new players they have to make 400 main scenario quest and spend almost 300 hours to do it to reach content with all players want.

Sorry for that but i have to say it: Are you Fu... Kidding me?! Yoshida! Expansion is the best moment to reach new players - they must have options to reach new content as possible and play together with us because if they will be leave in central shroud alone they will just leave the game.

MAKE FINAL FANTASY XIV GREAT AGAIN and make possibility to start game form lvl 60 with all main scenario for people who buy Bloodstorm.

[Daranion]

Best you get is skipping 2.x and 3.x quests with a AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS cutscene. But the main stories will always be necessary. It's a single player final fantasy game with multiplayer tacked on. BEst get used to it

[Greedalox]

I believe in the continuation of the story, and therefore the restriction. So maybe the "Are you fu... kidding me?!" is over the top. There's always the idea of being able to skip story up to that point if you're that gungho about it, but story is the easiest way to level your first job to max level, so I don't really see the problem overall unless new players prefer getting to 60+ with FATES instead of using Story EXP to their advantage.

[Vaer]

This has been an ongoing topic but I don't actually remember him saying anything like that. As far as I know they were considering a skip potion or item but have not said whether or not they are going to restrict the story or allow people to skip. They got feedback from people that want to skip the old stuff and jump in at the expansion/play through a condensed version of it to get to the new stuff faster.

[Xlantaa]

Very Very Very bad idea let players skip stuff or give them level 60 by the face. Games starts form the beggining, not from the end. Sorry but the XXIth century "gamer" mentality of "please give me all here and now without time and effort" is the worst thing hapenning in the videogame world. So, I won't support such thing. Games start form the beggining.

[CassandraJean]

Personally I like the way the world opens up along with the story, but I am used to single-player games that work this way.
Maybe, if they did not lock new classes behind the MSQ (Making Red Mage etc. available to new players so they can Main those classes from the start) it would not irritate so many people.

[Atoli]

Eh, but didn't they always say before that, while ARR will be mandatory, HW won't be needed for the next expansion?
Even I think that is getting a bit much. I also believe in the importance of a continous story, but there is a limit to how much you can require players to do before they are allowed to join endgame.
I can get behind 2.55 being needed, but the entirety of HW too?
I thought they'd add a "short version" questline that roughly wraps up the Ul'dah drama at the end of 2.55 and leads into Ala Mhigo without the entire Dragonsong War thing in between,
as an alternative for people who want to skip HW.

[Blood-Aki]

This is funny, the EXACT same complaint was made by some people when HW came out "wtf? why do i need to finish ARR story before i can do HW!!" etc. lol.. Finish the friggin story, you have plenty of time till it actually comes out, if you're actually playing this game there is no excuse to not finish the story before then, Not like any of it is hard. Stop asking for shortcuts, it's a bad idea to let peopel go from brand new character, straight to stormblood. This isn't a fighting game where story is ignored and you get straight to the action.

[Kondor]

I need new players in Free Company, they watch my Stream and they like raids, hi-end dungeons and all content what i do. But they play first 30 days and that just boring to make main scenario. I try to find why they do that even if we help them and force to play with us, and i start new characters and i can tell one - most low lvl quest are boring, locations are empty, no one do any fates, for dungeons i wait more than 40 min and i stuck on 42 lvl and don't have any motivation to do more, because i know how many quests and grind i have to do to reach lvl 60.

[Sandpark]

As long as there are still parties to find while progressing the main story then the first two expansions should be mandatory. Rather than a proposed level cap potion.The experience should be increased 3 fold in the main story.

I remember the xp given between ARR and HW was 4800 per quest. That xp should be something like 20k per quest.

• You buy StormBlood for $59.99 and get ARR and HW for free.
• Experience for Main Story quest is increased 3 fold throughout all the first two scenarios.
• Experience for Doh/Dol is increased 3 fold throughout all the first two scenarios.
• Chocobo Mount obtainable at Level 10(Yes ungate it from the Grand Company)
• Keep the Companion Grand Company bound.
• All mounts are account wide.